In the past, the Legislature has met monthly in the off-season to get updated on issues that are likely to come up in the next legislative session. This year, legislators are taking a summer-long siesta, so we’ll carry on without them to...

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CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The evening sun dips below the horizon as another hot and humid day comes to a close. A pink tinge in the western sky is the only reminder that a bright sun ruled over the day, but twilight is closing in, and day is done....

In the past, the Legislature has met monthly in the off-season to get updated on issues that are likely to come up in the next legislative session. This year, legislators are taking a summer-long siesta, so we’ll carry on without them to...

Months after Republicans attempted to make significant changes to campaign contribution limits in West Virginia, a new federally registered political organization has formed with the express intention of raising unlimited donations.

Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin on Thursday announced the awarding of $50,000 in crisis grant funding to Webster County Memorial Hospital to assist with infrastructure repairs following severe flooding earlier this month.

Reauthorization of the country’s landmark education law likely won’t pass Congress until this fall, but state school officials already are optimistic its proposed redistribution of power will bring much needed change they say is...

It will be up to the Legislature to clean up confusing language in the law for publicly financed West Virginia Supreme Court campaigns, after the State Election Commission decided Thursday not to clarify the issue through its rules.

Despite calls from a legal organization to investigate the handling and subsequent dismissal of a complaint against state Supreme Court Justice Robin Davis, the chairmen of the West Virginia Legislature’s House and Senate...

A ruling by a federal agency earlier this month declaring employment discrimination based on sexual orientation to be illegal does not remove the need for West Virginia to pass a law banning employment and housing discrimination against gays and...

The attorney general’s office is reviewing Congressional testimony given Tuesday by Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler that at least two Capitol Hill publications concluded could bar public officials from conducting...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Despite almost a year of flirting with the possibility of returning to West Virginia to run for governor in 2016, U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin didn’t receive much love from campaign donors outside of political action...